Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-15

oaugnter. saw them also cruahsd =.
gether and burned just - the 1lames We,
olaNne, put foot or two from me.
man pulled me into the aiele and sa;i
ZONE to the window He must have mi,
saken me Tor some one else, for the M.
ment he looked closely at nv face he dro,
PED mo and hurried through the windo'
WIN an exclamation OF evident disappoin,
ment: ! then painfully crawled throue
tne window after him in safety" This a
ternoon when the reporters, who had bee
!ons delayed in reaching Kouts'. owing t
the secretiveness OF the railroad officials
began at last to arrive, there was but it'll
IN the aspect Of the village to indicate tn
calamity that had so recently taken place
All dead bodies had been
CAREFULLY REMOVED FROM s1aHr.
| Only two wounded were still in the vii
lage, and the local emplyes were deaf an,
dumb to all seekers after Information
The Coroner had been obliehed to 70 t,
Huntington. over fifty miles distant. t,
obtain the statements Of witnesses ant
| villagers. who seemed. wholly at sea re
garding the extent of the disaster, TIL,
only person about. and willing to tell tn,
details OF the horror was DR.. c. W. Mckee
who hod rendered noble service. He hae
scant time to give his experience in detail
but stated to the best OF his knowledge
that it would not be overstating facts Il
say that the collision had cost the lives o
fully thirty people. It was shortly after ]
O'Clock this morning when he reached tht
wreck. and he Immediately began To- give
his services to the wounded. s'Tbose v be
were badly hurt when the crash came" he
says. must have had little chance fol
their lives; 50 quickly had the cars taken
fire, and 40 thorough was the
WORK OF the FLAMEs."
As an illustration of the destruction and
difficulty OF arriving at a correct idea ol
it's magnitude, the doctor said probably
that not soul would have been made
aware Of the all but total wiping out of the
Miller family OF six, had not their boy been
saved. DR.. Mckee stated that only nine
bodies had been recovered, and they were
80 badly sharred as to be almost beyond
recognition, the most left OF almost all OF
them being blacke ned trunk and in some
cases little beyond handfuls of ashes. The
nine were as follows:
The Miller family Of Dundee, father,
mother. two brothers and a girl (their H.
year-old boy, Herman, will probably die
also.)
DR.. Perry, of North Judson, Indiana.
DIR. Perry's wife
DR.. Perry Is daughter, aged IL.
Ayoung Irish lady.
SUPERINTENDENT PARSONS
of the Chicago & Atlantic was seen late in
the afternoon, gloomily pacing the station
platform. He was extremely taciturn,
and was very sure no more bodies could
be by any possibility under the wreck.
Only nine persons had been killed, he de-
clared, and not more than eleven or twelve
hurt, mono of the latter seriously. He ad-
mitted that no fagman had been sent back
from the passenger train when the stop
was made. Mr.. Parsons says the trainmen
were depending on a semaphore light, fully
1000 feet from where the stop was. made.
The conductor of the train had pulled
cord for this light when ho stepped from his
train. This would throw glare OF red dan
ger signal on the track. The night, however.
was foggy, and the engineer OF the fast
freight must have failed to see the signal.
Parsons thought the
accident would have been very ordinary
one, had not the stove in the sleeper upset.
That caused the destruction of the sleeper,
two coaches and baggage car. and that in
the main was doubtless the cause of the
loss of life. Coroner Heatherman, Mr..
Parsons said, reached the scene from
Valparaiso about 1l:3O q. M, and after
viewing the debris and making some in.
quiries had found it necessary to 60 to
in search of witnesses. The
wounded, Parsons explained, had been
taken there as early as poesible and
passengers who were unhurt to the num-
Der OF twenty.fi i've had been forwarded to
their destination without delay.